The wrong way of investing Investing in risky vehicles about which you have minimal knowledge is a pathway to losses. My story may be familiar to some. In the early 90s, I was introduced to commodities investing by a popular investor in the commodities …
Archive for November, 2012
Can you achieve financial success?!
My early financial experience When I think of the early periods of my career and my financial management at these stages, it seems that I do not recall having asked myself a rather fundamental question. The question was should I be a penny pincher or a free …
Time to prepare your tax finances!
Taxes are gonna change Taxes are now looking to get worse. Okay, so Obama won. This now means that your taxes in your financial situation are likely to change significantly in January whether or not any new legislation gets passed between now and the end of this …
This budget tip should hit home big
Back to the monthly budget tips we go. It goes without saying that one of the high cost monthly items in your budget is the restaurant bill. I love eating out, and so does my wife. It has been a difficult area to try to control …
Why mutual funds are bad
Mutual fund investing used to be the best way for someone just starting out to invest money in the stock market. Like I mentioned in a previous article, my initial stock market investing was in mutual funds, and this was a time when the number …